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Bookman Lights

The other night when I went to take the District out for its maiden ride, I realized with a sinking feeling in my stomach that I don't have any spare taillights. For some reason, my apartment contains approximately four spare headlights in various lumens, but not a single spare taillight. I guess I've always been more concerned with being seen from the front as opposed to the back, although the taillights on the current bikes are by no means bad - we run Cateye and PDW in my house.

Not wanting to be silent and invisible from the rear, I ran the fifteen feet from my front door to the awesome store I live behind and proceeded to acquire a pair of Bookman Lights, which I've been admiring in the window for a while, but wasn't able to justify until right at that moment. Not because they're expensive - it's $30 for a set - just because I have a lot of gadgets already, and I'm trying to quit.

Image via http://bookman.se/ - I didn't know they made red! Now I want red!

Bookman lights are these neat little lights that will attach just about anywhere on your bike using an elastic band, like so:

Image via Materialicious

They may look small, but they are formidable, and quite bright! They have three settings - slow flash, quick flash, and solid, and they're waterproof (and quite stylish!). Granted, the front light doesn't make a good "see-the-road" headlight, but for city biking, these little lights will certainly get you noticed. Also, the elastic band lets them fit on any size seat post, fork blade, handlebars, downtubes, backpacks...wherever, really.